Matilda Scholz has taken arguably the best mark in AFLW historical past whereas lifting Port Adelaide to an eight-point win over Collingwood and into the highest eight.
The Energy’s 4.9 (33) to three.7 (25) victory at Alberton on Thursday evening gave the group their first three-game win streak since getting into the competitors in 2022.
It was highlighted by a dream-like third quarter, wherein Gemma Houghton kicked a contender for aim of the yr, earlier than Scholz positively locked up mark of the yr (after which some).
Deep within the third quarter, Maria Moloney drove the ball deep into the ahead 50 and 19-year-old Scholz charged into the pack, leapt, slammed her knee into the shoulder of a Collingwood defender and took a flying seize excessive above her head.
It’s going to little doubt be the mark of the season and can take some beating because the best seize in AFL Ladies’s historical past.
The teenager ruck modestly described her gorgeous take as a “little bit of a fluke” however Melbourne ahead Tayla Harris, no stranger to history-making moments of her personal, labelled it “unreal” on social media.
Scholz went again and slotted the aim, including a serious to her game-winning efficiency that additionally included 15 contested possessions, 10 hit-outs and 9 clearances.
5 minutes of sport time earlier, with Port down 5, Houghton stepped into the ruck within the ahead pocket.
The previous Fremantle Docker outworked Imogen Barnett, and in a single movement caught the ball on her chest, pivoted away from the competition towards the boundary line, and snapped from the tightest of angles.
Port posited on social media that it was aim of the yr, to which Scholz agreed.
“It actually felt like a gritty win,” Port coach Lauren Arnell mentioned.
“Actually happy with our midfield and the way in which they caught it out and reset at half-time.
“Our mids have been capable of grind it out when it was a very contested sport of footy.”
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